Weekly Wrap: 'One Hot Mess' As Shutdown Continues, Plus Millennials And Burnout

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🗓️ 11 January 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's Friday. Sam is swimming through the latest in shutdown and border wall news with help from NBC White House correspondent Geoff Bennett and CNN senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson. Race is seemingly absent from that debate, even though it's a big predictor of voter attitudes on immigration. Plus, why BuzzFeed writer Anne Helen Petersen dubbed millennials the "burnout generation."

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty.
0:02.7	This week on the show,
0:04.4	see you in senior political reporter,
0:07.3	Nea Malika Henderson,
0:09.3	and NBC White House correspondent, Jeff Bennett.
0:13.3	All right, let's start the show.
0:15.3	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:18.1	I'm Betty's gonna freak out because I know she's seen both of you.
0:20.7	Oh my god. That is so cool. I'm freaking out.
0:23.7	Thank you, Aunt Betty.
0:24.7	This is like James or Joan saying,
0:26.6	this is fantastic.
0:27.8	Oh my god, let's go ahead.
0:29.2	Oh my goodness. From NPR, I'm Sam Sanders.
0:31.7	It's been a minute.
0:32.6	I am taping the show this week from Washington, DC.
0:36.8	That means I have a guest with me here in person from DC.
0:40.9	Nea Malika Henderson from CNN,
0:43.4	and also joining us from down the road at the White House,
0:47.5	Jeff Bennett, NBC White House correspondent.
0:50.0	He's working out of the White House today.
0:52.4	You both are hearing a mariachi remix of Baby Shark this week.
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